Current news...
July 2026 update: nvidia8 has arrived
nvidia8 has joined the GPU server family and is identical to nvidia7 except that it lives in cosy South Kensington whereas nvidia7 has a lonely existence in an industrial estate in Slough.
nvidia4 has been repaired and moved to the ICT City & Guilds data centre in South Kensington and nvidias 5 & 6 are due to move there also next week, week beginning 19 July. clustor4 and its associated 10 Gbit/s network will follow once these moves have been completed.
Older news items:
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- May 2025 update: substantial storage increase for GPU users
- April 10th, 2025: April update
- March 5th, 2025: March update
- September 19th, 2024: clustor2 problems due to data centre cooling failure
- August 15th, 2024: August update, introducing clustor3
- March 20th, 2024: March update, substantial upgrade of the NextGen HPC cluster started
- November 20th, 2023: November update
- September 25th, 2023: September update
- August 18th, 2023: August update
- June 30th, 2023: June update
- March 15th, 2023: March update
- August 13th, 2022: Mid-August update
- July 5th, 2022: Early July update, RStudio upgrade for apollo Stats MSc server
- June 15th,2022: June update, Huxley server room expansion, Huxley 616 network management improvements
- May 4th, 2022: April update, tape backups, development of a new Hadoop/Spark platform completed
- March 16th, 2022: March update, job management for the forrest GPU server, development of a new Hadoop/Spark platform
- December 23rd, 2021: a mini-HPC for Stats
- August 14th, 2021: two more compute servers added to the Stats MSc compute pool
- July 19th, 2021: July update: extensive updates to the Stats MSc compute servers, CUDA and cuDNN updates for nvidia4
- June 19th: June 2021 update: new archival server, storage upgrade for Keaveny cluster, Firedrake build servers & Big Blue Button server
- May 21st, 2021: Degond Cluster becomes a full HPC
- March 24th, 2021: Degond Cluster fully upgraded
- February 25th, 2021: a GPU server for the StatML CDT
- February 1st, 2021: Bazooka Hadoop cluster control network switch replaced
- September 24th, 2020: all Stats' general purpose compute systems now running Ubuntu 18.04
- August 9th, 2020: new GPU server nvidia4 introduced
- April 7th, 2020: Magma software upgraded to version 2.25-4
- March 17th, 2020: a new 8 card GPU server installed
- March 2nd, 2020: another backup server added
- February 28th, 2020: internal network expansion, ma-backup4 and GPU servers coming soon
- February 6th, 2020: more large compute servers for Stats
- November 1st, 2019: NextGen is shutting down on November 1st in readiness for relocation
- September 29th, 2019: matlab2018 queue has now been discontinued on the NextGen cluster
- August 24th, 2019: matlab2018 queue to be discontinued on the NextGen cluster
- August 14th, 2019: more servers for Stats, remote monitoring upgrades, better system status reporting and more power supplies
- June 23rd, 2019: more servers in the server room, expanded Bazooka Hadoop cluster now available for use
- May 29th, 2019: R Shiny server memory replaced & remote management added
- April 12th, 2019: NextGen cluster Maple 2019 upgrade completed
- March 16th, 2019: Planned Bazooka Hadoop cluster upgrade, reorganisation of backup servers
- February 19th, 2019: ma-offsite2 now online
- January 19th, 2019: Matlab 2018b upgrade ongoing
- December 14th, 2018: Matlab upgrade to version R2018b started, Stats section compute & storage enhancements completed, silos3 and 4 introduced
- September 18th, 2018: more local storage for Stats modal server and new PostgreSQL database server launched
- August 29th, 2018: new 'du' command options, cluster R upgrade and ma-backup3
- July 2nd, 2018: nvidia3 now has two GPU cards
- May 15th, 2018: Early summer update
- March 29th, 2018: Easter update
- March 24th, 2018: spring update
- March 10th, 2018: late winter update
- December 15th: pre-Christmas update
- November 22nd: late November update
- October 8th: start of 2017/2018 academic year update
- 2017: Midsummer's Day update
- June 16th, 2017: mid-June update
- June 2nd, 2017: Early summer update
- April 20th, 2017: Spring update 2
- March 22nd, 2017: Early spring update
- March 10th, 2017: Winter update 2
- February 22nd, 2017: Winter update
- November 2nd, 2016: Autumn update
- October 21st, 2016: Late summer update 2
- October 14th, 2016: Late summer update
- February 19th, 2016: Winter update
- December 11th, 2015: Autumn update
- September 14th, 2015: Late summer update 2
- May 2nd, 2015: Spring update 2
- April 26th, 2015: Spring update
- November 11th, 2014: Autumn update
- September 17th, 2014: Summer update 2
- July 17th, 2014: Summer update
- March 15th, 2014: Spring update
- November 2nd, 2013: Summer update
- May 24th, 2013: Spring update
- January 23rd, 2013: Happy New Year!
- November 22nd, 2012: No news is good news...
- November 17th, 2011: A revamp for the Maths SSH gateways
- September 7th, 2011: Failed systems under repair
- August 14th, 2011: Introducing calculus, a new NFS home directory server for research users
- July 19th, 2011: a new staging server for the compute cluster
- July 19th, 2011: A new Matlab queue and improved queue documentation
- June 30th, 2011: Updated laptop backup scripts
- June 18th, 2011: More storage for the silo...
- June 16th, 2011: Yet more storage for the SCAN...
- June 10th, 2011: 3 new nodes added to the Maths compute cluster
- May 21st, 2011: Announcing SCAN large storage and subversion (SVN) servers
- May 26th, 2011: Reporting missing scratch disk on macomp01
- May 21st, 2011: Announcing completion of silo upgrades
- May 16th, 2011: Announcing upgrades for silo
- April 14th, 2011: Goodbye SCAN 3, hello SCAN 4
- March 26th, 2011: quickstart guide to using the Torque/Maui cluster job queueing system
- March 9th, 2011: automatic laptop backup/sync service, new collaboration systems launched
- May 20th, 2010: Scratch disks are now available on all macomp and mablad compute cluster systems
- March 11th, 2010: Introduing job queueing on the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster
- October 16th, 2008: Introduing the Fünf Gruppe compute cluster
- June 18th, 2008: German City compute farm now expanded to 22 machines
- February 7th, 2008: new applications on the Linux apps server, unclutter your desktop
- November 13th, 2007: aragon and cathedral now general access computers, networked Linux Matlab installation upgraded to R2007a
- September 14th, 2007: Problems with sending outgoing mail for UNIX & Linux users
- July 23rd, 2007: SCAN available full-time over the summer vacation, closure of Imperial's Usenet news server
- May 15th, 2007: Temporary SCAN suspension, closure of the Maths Physics computer room, new research computing facilities
- January 14th, 2005: Exchange mail server upgrade, spam filtering with pine and various other enhancements